C O N G R E S S ” ENDOUROLOGY TODAY “
APRIL 2013
HOTEL O L Y M P I A * * * * VODICE – ŠIBENIK
Dear Colleagues,
Only a month remains until the beginning of the first international congress titled „Endourology Today“.
Our intention is to organize an educational and interesting conference.
Therefore, we have ensured live video transmission of surgical procedures for you which will be performed by top experts from Croatia and abroad. For this occasion we decided to show the surgical procedures of uretero-renoscopy with flexible and rigid instruments using lasers and PCNL technique and PDD.
In cooperation with company “Richard Wolf”, we have provided a workshop so that congress participants could try the latest instruments and equipment. Lectures will be held at the congress by eminent experts who were invited as congress lecturers.
Fellow urologists from Croatia and abroad will present results of their work as well as interesting case studies. For the duration of the congress, a Symposium will be held for nurses where there will be several interesting lectures along with training for nurses in the organization of „Richard Wolf“ company.
We set aside a special appointment and area for a meeting of urology residents, who will be addressed by senior colleagues with useful advice.
Finally, we want to provide comfortable socializing in a relaxing atmosphere. We are looking forward to your arrival in Vodice and Šibenik in April 2012.
Congress Organizing Committee
Hotel images
Hotel Olympia is located 500 m east from the center of well known summer resort of Vodice. The Hotel has 215 rooms and 26 suites and most beautiful facility in this hotel is a big outdoor swimming pool.
Description
Location: |
HOTEL OLYMPIA is located 500 m east from the center of well known summer resort of Vodice. The hotel has 215 rooms and 26 suites which can accommodate 520 guests. Hotel is completely renovated and air-conditioned 2001. All rooms and suites have balconies, most of them with a sea view. Every room and suite has a bathroom with a hair drier. Equipment in rooms and suites: air conditioning, satellite TV, mini bar, safe and internet connection. For all the guests the parking places are guaranteed, there are also parking places for the buses under the 24 h supervise (extra paying). The surrounding of the hotel has completely sport-recreation character. There are the football and field-ball field, tennis, volley-ball and basketball field, mini golf between the beautiful tree-lined walk in the pine park. 50 m from the hotel is a beach with the showers, lying chairs and a little boats. In the middle of that sports-beaches space is a self-service restaurant and snack-bar. |
Facilities: |
The most beautiful facility in this hotel is a big outdoor swimming pool that you can see on the picture. There are also in hotel: conference room (70 seats), aperitif bar, massage, hairdresser, kiosk, mini club (children’s playroom), animation (aquagym, aerobic, mini club, mini disco, school of Croatian language) |
Pets: |
not allowed |
Information
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Das Hotel Olympia liegt 500 m östlich vom Zentrum von Vodice. Das Hotel verfügt über 215 komfortable Doppelzimmer und 26 Appartements in zwei Gebäuden und kann 520 Gäste beherbergen. Das Hotel wurde im Jahr 2001 komplett erneuert und klimatisiert. Die Zimmer und Appartements sind qualitativ und modern ausgestattet, mit Satelliten- empfang, Minibar sowie Badezimmer mit Haarfön. Alle Zimmer haben Balkon mit Blick aufs Meer oder auf den Park. Der Hotelparkplatz wird rund um die Uhr bewacht. In der Umgebung des Hotels gibt es zahlreiche Möglichkeiten für Sport und Rekreation. Hier gibt es einen Fußball- und Handballplatz, Tennisplätze, Volleyballfeld und Basketballplatz sowie eine Minigolfanlage. Die Sportanlagen sind von Kiefern, Blumenalleen und Spazierwegen umgeben. Am Hotelstrand findet man Duschen, Liegen und kleine Wasserfahrzeuge. Mitten in diesem Sport und Strandbereich befindet sich ein großes Selbstbedienungsrestaurant und eine Snack Bar. • Hotelrestaurant Allen Gästen des Hotelkomplexes Olympia stehen folgende Inhalte zur Verfügung: |
1. HOTEL OLYMPIA VODICE CONFERENCE BROCHURE
2. HOTEL MIRAMARE VODICE CONFERENCE BROCHURE
3. HOTEL PUNTA VODICE CONFERENCE BROCHURE
4. GRAND HOTEL ADRIATIC CONFERENCE BROCHURE
5. GRAND HOTEL 4 OPATIJSKA CVIJETA CONFERENCE BROCHURE- PART1
6. GRAND HOTEL 4 OPATIJSKA CVIJETA CONFERENCE BROCHURE- PART2
7. HOTEL ELAPHUSA CONFERENCE BROCHURE
8. HOTEL ELAPHUSA CONFERENCE BROCHURE – FLYER
9. HOTEL ATRIUM CONFERENCE BROCHURE
10. ENDOUROLOGY TODAY CONGRESS BROCHURE 2. CALL – ENGLISH
11. ENDOUROLOGY TODAY CONGRESS BROCHURE 2. CALL – CROATIAN
12. ENDOUROLOGY TODAY CONGRESS BROCHURE LAST ANNOUNCEMENT – ENGLISH
13. ENDOUROLOGY TODAY CONGRESS BROCHURE ZADNJI POZIV – CROATIAN
14. HOTEL IMPERIAL VODICE CONFERENCE BROCHURE
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Telephone and fax number
Tel.: 00385 52 432 310
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Croatian Congress Hotels in Opatija
Opatija, often called the pearl of the Adriatic, is one of Croatia’s most famous destinations, boasting a tradition of welcoming visitors dating back more than 160 years. Located at the edge of the Mediterranean, on the slopes of Mount Ucka gently descending towards the coast of Kvarner Bay, Opatija with its local climate, beautiful architecture, quality hotels and luxurious, well-tended parks and promenades, offers plenty of possibilities for a pleasant stay throughout the year. The notable person who first discovered the magic of Opatija was Iginio Scarpa, a merchant from Rijeka who built his holiday home here in 1844 and named it the Villa Angiolina after his late wife. This event marked the beginning of tourism in Opatija. After that, Opatija started intensely developing under the supervision of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. 
Director of the Austrian Southern Railway Company Friedrich Schüler and its shareholders wanted to improve passenger traffic to the south. After choosing Opatija as the region’s most promising destination, they started building the first hotel in this new bathing and climatic health resort, advertising it widely as the “Austrian Nice”. Several important facilities were built alongside the first hotel: a pavilion with indoor pool for warm sea baths, a bathing place with separate areas for ladies and gentlemen, and the 12 kilometre-long coastal promenade from Volosko to Opatija and further to Lovran. The hotel was opened on the 27th March 1884. Its original name was Hotel Quarnero, and it offered its visitors 60 rooms. The second hotel that was built in Opatija after the Quarnero was the Hotel Kronprinzessin Stephanie. 
In 1885, the Austrian Southern Railway Company organised the first congress of balneologists in Opatija, during which the decision was made to declare Opatija a climatic health resort, which was officially done in 1889. Some of the Monarchy’s most eminent physicians opened their sanatoriums in Opatija; numerous promenades and bathing places were being built. This all turned Opatija into one of Europe’s most important health resorts of the 19th and the first half of the 20th century, alongside Nice, Karlovy Vary, Cannes and Biarritz. 
Kings and emperors, writers, philosophers, poets and composers used to stay here – let us mention some of them: the emperors Franz Joseph and William II, the queen of Romania Elisabeth who used to publish poems under the pseudonym of Carmen Sylva, then the empress Sissi, the writers A. P. Chekhov and James Joyce, the ballet dancer Isadora Duncan, and the composers Gustav Mahler and Giacomo Puccini. To see and be seen – this was the motto for those who came to Opatija. After World War Two, Opatija’s tourism became more orientated to the summer season and the hosting of conventions. Throughout that whole period, Opatija retained its importance as a destination with something special to offer. 
Opatija has numerous advantages that will surely entice you – superb convention facilities, quality accommodation, modern wellness centres for relaxation, and last but not least, friendly and professional staff that will do their best to meet all your requirements. Not to forget the area’s great gastronomy, offering unique combinations of traditional recipes, modern cuisine and first-class wines. Get to know Opatija, and let Opatija get to know you! 
To the organisers of business meetings, Opatija offers all the advantages of a major convention destination combined with the enticing charm of a more intimate holiday resort. The area’s extensive experience and tradition in organising conventions, combined with modern quality accommodation, provide excellent foundation for organising various meetings and events. Today, more than 125 years after the first congress, Opatija hosts more than 500 congresses, seminars, various meetings and events each year. Many of these are traditional and of national importance, but each time Opatija also hosts an increasing number of internationally relevant congresses. One of the reasons for this is undoubtedly Opatija’s favourable central position in the Alpe-Adria region, which includes the countries of Croatia, Slovenia, Italy, Austria and Hungary). Thanks to the modern motorway network, Opatija can today be easily reached by car in only several hours’ drive from all major centres of the region. More precisely, Opatija is within the radius of 5-hour-drive from some of the most important citys in South and Central Europe (Zagreb, Varaždin, Osijek, Split, Ljubljana, Maribor, Venice, Milan, Vienna, Budapest, Salzburg, Munich, Belgrade etc.). 
Opatija can also be reached by air via five international airports (Rijeka-island of Krk, Pula, Zagreb, Ljubljana and Trieste) that are all within two-hours’ drive. By train, Opatija can be reached from the railway station in Rijeka (15 km away; for trains coming from the direction of Zagreb), and the railway station Opatija- Matulji (6 km; for trains coming from the direction of Ljubljana). 
As the former leading destination of Austria-Hungary, Opatija not only served as a venue for relaxation and healing of emperors, kings, counts and marquises – since the very beginning of its rich tradition of tourism, Opatija’s facilities were used for the purposes of the meetings industry at the time. As early as 1885, only one year after the opening of the first hotel, on the initiative of Friedrich Schüler and the Austrian Southern Railway Company, Opatija hosted the first congress of balneologists. One of the issues discussed was whether Opatija should be a summer resort, or be declared a climatic health resort. In 1894, the Austro-Hungarian emperor Franz Joseph I met the German emperor William II, and ten years later, in 1904, the king of Sweden Oscar II. Thanks to Dr. Julius Glax, balneologists met again in Opatija in 1904 at the Congress of Austrian Balneologists, and again in 1908 at the 4th International congress for thalassotherapy. 
Ten years later, Opatija was witness to one of the greatest milestones of that time, the pact between Germany, Austria-Hungary and Italy, which was concluded in Opatija in April 1914. After Europe recovered from World War One, Opatija again hosted important congresses, such as the Italian National Congress of Hotels and Tourism in 1933. In the aftermath of World War Two, in the 1950s, Opatija became more oriented towards congress tourism, and the city again hosted important national and international conventions, such as the International Congress of Hydroclimatology and Thalassotherapy (1954), or the Congress of the International Handball Federation (IHF). One of the most important years was 1971, when the first large congress hall in Opatija was built. It was the congress hall of the Grand Hotel Adriatic, opened for the Congress of the International Ski Federation (FIS). The importance of Opatija as a convention destination is reflected in the fact that in the late 1960s and in the 1970s, the headquarters of Meditercongress, the international association of organisations and conference citys interested in the Mediterranean area, which had approximately thirty members, was located in Opatija. The scope of this association, which was founded on the 9th March 1968 in Venice, was a joint promotion of its members with the purpose of attracting new conferences and events. In 1973, negotiations about joining the European Federation of Conference Towns (EFCT) began, which resulted in the member citys becoming members of the EFCT (today, European Cities Marketing – ECM) by a special agreement in 1978, when the Meditercongress ceased to exist.
